Just a thought but if you are gonna be "storing" the 4i for a fairly long period like it has been so far I would assume you would be wanting to empty the petrol tank of gone off petrol and even draining the oil and various other fluids?
Then there's making sure the brakes/wheels aren't binding, having a system to make it easy to rotate the wheels in situ so you don't damage the tyres by sitting them always on the same bit of rubber... stuff like that.
Just thinking out loud really.

It was only in the sense that if fuel was leaking from the pipe there must be fuel in the car is all, and then thats what triggered my thoughts about storage... I don't know much about it, maybe there is books/info on the net about it!

Fairplay Daws. You really don't want to empty fuel from a car because the vapour is more destructive than the fuel. Some people will actually fill their tank up before storing a car so the filler neck doesn't rust.

Yes that stuff looks OK James, I think I will get a length of the black stuff and some clips since there may be other lines that need replacing.

I prefer black - really no need for all this shiney stainless braid if you place them in the right place and secure them properly...

As for petrol - evil stuff - left some in a set of carbs for 6 months in 2003 and it varnished the inside and gummed it up yucky. You can get additive to add to the tank - I guess you have to run the engine to get it to circulate though - otherwise I don't know how it would get up to the injectors etc Frost do a selection.

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What was sitting in the bottom of the float bowls was horrid stuff - redish brown yuck - needed to be really worked at to get it off. Would hate to think that was in your fuel system - especially as you also have injectors and regulators and the like.

Am worried about my car now - as it's been sitting for so long (since November) - but as all the fuel system is being replaced anyway it's no big worry. Only thing is the tank...

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